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It was also in 1843, that there was established the 

 Chemico-Agricultural Society of Scotland, which was, 

 I believe, broken up after it had existed between 

 four and five years, because its able Chemist, the late 

 Professor Johnston, failed to find a remedy for the 

 potato disease. Somewhat similar duties, including 

 a good deal of agricultural research, have however 

 since been performed under the auspices of the High- 

 land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for many 

 years by the late Professor Anderson, and more 

 recently by Dr. Aitken. 



In 1845, the Chemico-Agricultural Society of 

 Ulster was established ; Professor Hodges was ap- 

 pointed as Chemist, and he continues ably to perform 

 the duties of the office. 



As already intimated, agencies of this kind were 

 not so soon brought into operation on the Continent. 

 Nevertheless, the numerous Agricultural Experi- 

 mental Stations which have been established, not 

 only in Germany, but in most continental States, 

 owe their origin very directly to the writings, the 

 teachings, and the influence of Liebig. 



The movement seems to have originated in Saxony, 

 where Stockhardt had already stimulated interest in 

 the subject by his lectures and his writings. After 

 some correspondence in 1850-51, between the late 

 Dr. Crucius and others on the one side, and the 

 Government on the other, the first so-called 'Agri- 

 cultural Experimental Station' was established at 

 Mochern, near Leipzig, in 185 1-2. In 1877 the 

 twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of that In- 

 stitution was celebrated at Leipzig ; when an account, 

 which has since been published, was given of the 

 number of Stations then existing, of the number of 

 Chemists engaged, and of the subjects which had 



